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The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
Mr. Sparrow, from the Military Committee, reported back, with verbal amendments, the bill for the relief of Kentucky troops.--The bill was considered, and then laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. The bill authorizing the appointment of a Third Auditor of the Treasury was taken up and passed. The bill to organize troops to serve during the war, was taken up and considered, and, upon the motion of Mr. Sparrow, laid upon the table till Monday next. On motion of Mr. Semmes, of La., the Senate adjourned. The House was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Duncan. Mr. Staples, of Va., offered a resolution requesting the President, if not incompatible with the public interest, to furnish the House with the report of Brig. Gen. Echols of the battle of Droop Mountain. Mr. Goode, of Va., offered a resolution that the Judiciary Committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the act regulating impressments as to relieve from impressmen
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Yankee Review of What the Abolitionists have accomplished. (search)
rmies of both sides. What amount of human misery has occurred beyond and behind the armies we shall not now inquire. The amount of property destroyed during the war may be roughly estimated at five hundred millions of dollars. The injury inflicted upon our commerce and carrying trade may be stated at one hundred millions of dollars. This is rather under than above the mark; for the rebel Maffit asserts that he alone has destroyed eleven millions of dollars worth of ships and cargoes, and Semmes has certainly destroyed much more. The war debt of the North and South amounts to about five thousand millions of dollars. If the war ends by the abolition of slavery we shall have to keep a standing army of a hundred thousand men, and support two or three millions of indigent negroes for several years. But we will leave that probability out of the account, and will also refrain from estimating the millions and billions of dollars which the now impeded industry of this country would have